The XY Conspiracy

by Lori Selke

Why Are There No Women in Black?

Jyn, an Asian-American lesbian, makes her living stripping in clubs in San Francisco. But stripping is only her day job. Her true vocation is UFO hunting. One night, working at her day job, she sights a Man in Black and realizes he is stalking her...

Spring in Geneva

by Sylvia Kelso

Mary Shelley, a young banker's son, and William, an excessively tall man with a "lividly hued visage, watery eyes, and blackened lips within a straggling beard," pit their wits and derring-do against Lord Byron, master of steampunk technology, and his thuggish minions.

Missing Links

edited by L. Timmel Duchamp

Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse is an anthology of short fictions by Nisi Shawl, Anna Tambour, Lucy Sussex, Mark Rich, and others. Ever wonder who that frequent addressee of Anglophone Nineteenth-century narrators, “Dear Reader,” really was? Or about the true story on which Edgar Allan Poe based his melodramatic “Fall of the House of Usher"? Missing Links and Secret Histories elucidates these and other mysteries (some admittedly occasionally obscure). It even includes excerpts from lost or suppressed manuscripts scholars have not even suspected exist, such as “The V Manuscript” written by the Marquis de Sade in 1783 while imprisoned in the Chateau de Vincennes.

Big Mama Stories

by Eleanor Arnason

Big Mama Stories collects five edgy, satirical tales of wily tricksters for the 21st century. In “Big Green Mama Falls in Love,” Big Green Mama duplicates herself and discovers just how life-threatening a Big-Mama-sized case of love can be while the skwork learn that one cannot train a microbe to be patriotic. In “Big Red Mama in Time and Morris, Minnesota,” Big Red Mama gets pissed off when she discovers the Cretaceous has been invaded by an obnoxious human who has stolen a time-machine—and decides that some information probably shouldn’t be free, particularly since as a group, humans underestimated the damage they did and rarely took responsibility for anything. On the basis of these stories, the one thing you can say for sure is that Big Mamas' lives are never dull.

Feminist Voices

by edited by Batya Weinbaum

Feminist Voices: The Best of Femspec's Creative Work collects the fiction and poetry that a jury judged the best published in each of the first ten years of Femspec. As Pamela Sargent writes in her introduction, “What these dissimilar and individual writers have in common is an ability and willingness to illuminate feminist concerns in their poetry and fiction while viewing them through the lenses of speculative fiction.”

News from Aqueduct Press New e-books from Aqueduct Press! The XY Conspiracy by Lori Selke Spring in Geneva by Lori Sylvia Kelso Cascadia Subduction Zone The October 2013 issue of The Cascadia Subduction Zone is now available. Awards Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam is a co-winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for 2012. The poem "The Receptionist" (in The Receptionist and Other Tales) by Lesley Wheeler is on the Tiptree Award Honor List for 2012.

Space Is Just a Starry Night

by Tanith Lee

Lee's powerful science fiction collection assembles 12 tales published between 1979 and 2011, plus two originals. All of them showcase her strong, entertaining, and often gorgeous writing... This is a solid grouping of stories that deserves a broad audience.
  —Publishers Weekly May 6, 2013.

Strange Matings

edited by Rebecca J. Holden and Nisi Shawl

“This noteworthy anthology—published by a feminist small press in memory of Butler, an African-American science-fiction author—consists of a wide-ranging selection of sometimes-dense scholarly essays, highly readable reminiscences and personal essays, poems, correspondence, photographs, and interviews.”
  —Publishers Weekly, May 27,2013

The WisCon Chronicles, Vol 7

edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft

In the spirit of WisCon's continuing mission to boldly go where no con has gone before in breaking down barriers, this volume of the WisCon Chronicles seeks to smash ableist narratives that keep disabled people from full participation in the present we inhabit and the speculative futures we hope to create.

The Helix and the Hard Road

by Joan Slonczewski and Jo Walton

The Helix and the Hard Road celebrates the work of Joan Slonczewski and Jo Walton, WisCon 37’s Guests of Honor. The volume includes Slonczewski’s essay “I Have No Time, and I Must Write” and her short fiction “Tuberculosis Bacteria Joins the UN,” and a previously unpublished collection of Walton’s poetry, “The River and the Road.” In addition, the authors talk at length with interviewers knowledgeable about their work: Walton with Lynne M. Thomas, and Slonczewski with Michael Levy.